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...such hefty subject matter, as Tuft's Jacquelyn Benson lightened things up with a dramatic reading of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." Josette Akresh of Boston University staked her claim for the poetic medium with comedic bluntness, "If you don't appreciate poetry you're an ignorant fool...You need a taste of Socrates and a good hard punch in the kisser." Some of the more memorable idiomatic expressions of the night included the fascinating simile, "waves like asses rise and fall," as well as another student's symbolic appropriation of Richard Dean Anderson, as seen through the eyes...
...personal information or as a reward to surfers for just showing up. Hence the name--"You get something just for having 'been' there," explains Beenz.com chairman and CEO Philip Letts. Among the sites that offer this virtual token of their esteem are Excite UK, Dash, FortuneCity and the Motley Fool. Then, once your virtual wallet is bulging, you can spend beenz at any of some 200 e-commerce sites that accept beenz as a form of payment, including Flooz, ishop, Jellybeenz Gifts and MP3.com There are no downloads or credit-card transactions, and Beenz.com keeps track of your account...
Laws are bad weapons in the fight to protect privacy. Once we invoke the law, the bad deed has ordinarily been done, and society has lost. Attempting to restrain technological progress is another bad strategy--it's a fool's game and won't work. The best method for protecting privacy in 2025 is the same method we have always used: teaching our children to tell right from wrong, making it plain that we count on them to do what is right...
Although advertising campaigns and public-relations efforts are already underway, the U.S. Census for the year 2000 will officially begin April 1. April Fool's Day will be an appropriate date for a counting process that the last time it was conducted missed several million people, especially African-Americans, Hispanics, urban dwellers, immigrants and the poor. Although later studies estimated the extent of the undercounting, the official figures were not adjusted, and undercounted states suffered corresponding cutbacks in their representation in Congress and shares of federal funds...
...know, I know," sighed Buckwheat. "The flag's defenders claim they started flying it in 1962 to commemorate the Civil War centennial, but that doesn't fool anybody. What they were really doing was signaling their resistance to civil rights. But that's ancient history--even Strom Thurmond campaigns for black votes these days! What's the point of keeping it up there? It's costing South Carolina big bucks because civil rights groups have organized a boycott of the state until the flag comes down. According to polls, 60% of South Carolinians, black and white, want...